Show PROOF OF COAL LAND IN ALASKA Denver Deuer Aug a month montha I a hearing will begin ill in Seattle that government officials claIms will dis disClose close proof of gigantic frauds In con connection with coal lands lantis In Alaska This I investigation will be followed b by sim simIlar liar Ilar hearIngs to be held in a score o oI ot I states I IThe The best besl coal conI engineers and lawyers connected with the general laud land office have hae been assigned to duty In con connection with the hearings and special agents who have been quietly for months securing evidence will tale take time tho stand as Witnesses The Plic facts pertaining to lo the alleged frauds are arr to Secretary of the he Interior Ballinger and Fred bennett Dennett commissioner of the general land of 1 r and they have hae given the word to toI I theIr subordinates to proceed against persons responsible for the tue allege frauds Donnett Dennett stopped I off in Denver several days ago on bl his I wa say to tIme the coast and a conCe conference with the chief f or of the Held field I division of the general land office with headquarters nelo when Instructions I I II I I I I I I I were given en as to the method of proS pro I I or Of Vast Value That more than acres of rich coal lands In some of them I haying having veins feet In thick thickness ness fleas have been flied upon by dummy procured through agents or of I six lx large corporatIons the land office has ample to noye accord lug Ins to Information made public tonight Powerful Interests have hae sought to 10 force the department of tIle the Int Interior through financIal polItIcal and even SocIal pressure to patent these lands a great greal deal of which was med filed upon more than j two years ago pressure was re ra ulsted however and when congress congressI I passed the tho Jaw of HIi 1908 S providing I for associations of four or 01 more I to lo develop Alaskan coal hands I to the extent of acres for each combination the Interest back of these dummy tried to get these i lands hands through to lo patent under this law I Commissioner view of the I matter maller Is that all entries found to be bei i I fraudulent whIch he believes will I Proc proe to lo be nt at least 75 per cent of the I acres referred to lo should be cancelled at al once CoI 11 For Navy The governments interest lies in the tho II wish to have the great greal Alaskan coal coalfields coalfields fields opened to supply coal for the ships of the nn navy vr st stationed in the Pa Pacific It is said that the opening of the Alaskan deposits will she give the tho United d States control of the commerce of the thc Pacific ocean by reason of Its ability to lo supply fuel from a field almost In Inexhaustible exhaustible One of the coal companies involved J In the alleged fraud Is located In Seat I tIc the another in New York and still sUlI I others In San Francisco Omaha Omahu and andI Chicago The dummy entry men were recruited from froin I the docks o of Seattle the mines of Butte BUlle Mont and from the laboring I classes of Chicago o In many Instances I according to the evidence In the hands handsor or oi government inspectors these liege men 1 never neer saw or heard or of each other al ai although I though they were described In the III fil filIng lug Ing papers of Il a for developing sections of Alaska fields The evidence also shows In many that tile name of per pcr person son ostensibly upon the land I was fictitious us and in man many cases crusO the I person signing the papers was s Paid I a small sum for fOI doing so and knew nothing whatever of the Import of the document to which he was attaching I his signature The government officials assert that the they ha have traced the authors of the tho thoI fraud in several cases directly to lo paid I representatives of corporations in Involved It is hinted that further action than cancellation of patents be taken talen iu iii the 1 of criminal prosecutions I |